DISCy Chicks Cindy Jacoby and Martha Forlines

Show Notes: Featuring Guest Nancy Roberts owner of the DISC WizardNancy first used the DISC Behavior assessment in 1997 and fell in love with the power of DISC for her clients.Nancy works with her clients to help them with talent acquisition, employee engagement, and retention. For hiring she uses the job benchmarking process and believes all jobs should be benchmarked, as it improves the quality of the hires and longer term retention. Cindy and Nancy discuss the importance of the driving for...

The DISCy Chicks speak to the fact that DISC Behaviors are the science of observable behavior. Listen or watch the video as Cindy and Martha walk you through each of the styles that present on the high end of the scales. Here's a break down for you...the high dominants show up "large and in charge". The high influence style loves people, are gregarious, and energetic. The high steady style is also relationship oriented like the influence style, but they move at a slower pace and prefer to soc...

Succession PlanningThe DISCy Chicks wrap up they Employee Lifecycle series on using the many tools offered by TTISI to enable leaders to build their bench strength within their organization. The job benchmarking process is revisited as you look at the employees that you think are highly promotable. Cindy and Martha have conducted job benchmarking sessions for their clients using subject matter experts within a client's business. (You can listen to previous sessions on job benchmarking using t...

Applying Assessment Results for Employee DevelopmentCindy and Martha share their experience and wisdom in strategically developing your employees. The DISCy Chicks recommend one-on-one meetings with your direct reports once a week for thirty minutes, which are accountability meetings for both of you. They also recommend giving feedback in a very specific way vs. a very generalized way. Remember to review your employee's assessment to make sure you are communicating with their styl...

The DISCy Chicks talk about assessments that can boost the bonding process for you and your new employee. Why wait 90 days to see how your new hire is fitting in? We recommend on Day 1 that the manager review new hire's assessment with with hime or her and even better, to review the manager's report too. You can merge both reports into a comparison report to show the new employee's DISC profile as well as the manager's report, side by side. There is also the "gap report" pro...

Assessments that enable employee life cycle successCindy Jacoby and Martha Forlines continue the conversation on how employee assessments can enable greater success in the employee attraction and talent acquisition stage of the employee life cycle. The DISCy Chicks describe how the DISC Behaviors, Driving Forces and Competencies (TriMetrix DNA) is used effectively in the job benchmarking process to get to "why" the job exists. Key accountabilities are identified by the subject matter exp...